Incense - in the form of coils, cones, powders or sticks - is widely used in religious and cultural practices. But researchers say that incense can give off 4.5 times more particulate matter than ...

It’s about as clear a transmutation of incense as I’ve experienced, and a single inhale was enough to conjure up those other church smells in true Proustian fashion: the ashy whiff of a ...

Five grains of incense inserted into the candle in the ... priest or deacon carries the candle in procession into the dark church. A new fire, symbolizing our eternal life in Christ, is kindled ...